I remember the heat. A dry, suffocating torrent. The blazing, burning sun baking the tarmac. No clouds, no trees, just a furnace of hate. I feel the hate. I remember the heat. I remember the dust.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. To Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and contrary to ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind Sixties hits “Poetry in Motion” and “It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’,” has died at the age of 86. Tillotson’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the news in a ...

There will be a special choral prayer service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, commemorating the Rev. Absalom Jones, who was born into slavery and became the first ...

Such men as Merchant Stephen Girard, French Refugee Dr. Devèze and former Negro Slaves Absalom Jones and Richard Allen ... s Almshouse, as the poem has it. Fever victims were not admitted.

In the Episcopal Diocese of New York, the annual Absalom Jones celebration includes worshippers and cultures of all ethnicities from throughout the diocese; in recognition of current Episcopal ...

is a book of poetry by Lewton Thomas Jones that traces his childhood in 1950’s Colorado to his formative years growing up in Portland Oregon in the 1960’s and beyond. Expect lots of metaphors ...

ATLANTA — A founding executive director of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing was awarded two presidential awards and named a lifetime achievement honoree. Dr. Catherine Meeks ...

The caption is a reference to the poem "If--" by Rudyard Kipling. It's a poem that Jones referenced last August, along with "The Man In The Arena" speech delivered by Theodore Roosevelt.

But there wasn’t much talk about abolitionism, or Forten’s old friends, like Absalom Jones, founder of the African ... daughter Sarah Louisa Forten’s poem, “The Grave of the Slave.” ...